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The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

[Annotator's Note: After the war ended in Europe, David Foerster was assigned to a hurricane tracking crew out of Key...

Jack Madden was in Europe when the war ended. He was delighted. He had not followed the course of the war too closely...

Edward Thomas Toole's most memorable moment was when Japan surrendered. That meant the war was over. That was a...

Fred Arthur Balfour [Annotator's Note: with SHAEF – Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force] would watch the...

Robert Fitz crossed the Atlantic [Annotator's Note: Atlantic Ocean] 11 times during his service with the Navy Armed...

Joseph Brannan was stationed in Southern France after being based in Italy. In France, liberty was more available than...

Anthony Bianconi [Annotator's Note:a musician and ammunition loader on the USS Philadelphia (CL-41)] went from North...

Edward Dunne's most memorable experience of the war is seeing dead people. It is bad, especially when it is a lot of...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer went to Mobile, Alabama to board his assigned ship - the Landing Ship, Tank USS LST-502...

Winfield K. "Win" Zerphey was born in October 1924 in the small town of Floren outside of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. He...

Robert Martin went to Plymouth, England [Annotator's Note: on the USS LST-515]. While they were in England went to a...

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